Cody Beals (CAN) blasted onto the IROMAN stage this summer at Mont Tremblant, using a brilliantly executed race to win on home turf. Riding the wave of confidence that came with that first full distance win, Beals sought to replicate that end result six weeks later in Chattanooga.
With the swim cancelled due to unsafe conditions, Beals was lucky enough to draw the first position in the time-trial start. The Canadian would prove untouchable on the bike. Then early in the run, it was apparent the only placings left to scrap it out for were the second and third steps on the podium as Beals. With Beals raising the finish line tape in victory, Kirill Kotsegarov (EST) and Matt Russell (USA) battled it out in the closing miles of the run, with Russell making a dramatic surge to to blast by a struggling Kotsegarov in the final mile.
Top 5 Pro Men
1 Beals, Cody USA 7:10:22
2 Russell, Matt USA 7:21:55
3 Kotsegarov, Kirill EST 7:23:06
4 Otstot, Adam USA 7:32:13
5 Defilippis, Scott USA 7:32:47